Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded

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H. Sotheran, 1883

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Pagina 344 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Pagina 254 - Still more and more artful! said he — Is this an answer to my question? — I have searched every place above, and in your closet, for them, and cannot find them ; so I will know where they are. Now, said he, it is my opinion they are about you ; and I never undressed a girl in my life ; but I will now begin to strip my pretty Pamela ; and I hope I shall not go far before I find them.
Pagina xliv - Clarissa." " Not read -Clarissa!'" he cried out. "If you have once thoroughly entered on - Clarissa ' and are infected by it, you can't leave it. When I was in India I passed one hot season at the hills, and there were the Governor-General, and the Secretary of Government, and the Commander-in-Chicf, and their wives. I had - Clarissa...
Pagina 352 - We hang'd our harps and instruments The willow trees upon : For in that place, men, for that use, Had planted many a one. My master then read : When sad I sat in B - n hall, All guarded round about, And thought of ev'ry absent friend, The tears for grief burst out.
Pagina xliv - When I was in India, I passed one hot season at the hills, and there were the governor-general, and the secretary of government, and the commander-in-chief, and their wives. I had Clarissa with me : and, as soon as they began to read, the whole station was in a passion of excitement about Miss Harlowe and her misfortunes, and her scoundrelly Lovelace ! The governor's wife seized the book, and the secretary waited for it, and the chief justice could not read it for tears...
Pagina v - ... from the head: by chance lively; very lively it will be, if he have hope of seeing a lady whom he loves and honours : his eye always on the ladies...
Pagina xiv - Poor Fielding! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at, and concerned for his continued lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he had had the advantage of a liberal education, and of being admitted into good company...
Pagina xii - Clarissa, (oh! the heavenly book!) I would have pray'd you to write the history of a manly Clarissa, but I had not courage enough at that time. I should have it no more to-day, as this is only my first English letter - but I have it! It may be, because I am now Klopstock's wife, (I believe you know my husband by Mr.
Pagina xxxvi - One faded cheek rested upon the good woman's bosom, the kindly warmth of which had overspread it with a faint, but charming flush; the other paler and hollow, as if already iced over by death.
Pagina 345 - Oh but, sir, said I, I have seen God's salvation! — I am sure, added I, if anybody ever had reason, I have to say, with the blessed Virgin, My soul doth magnify the Lord; for He hath regarded the low estate of His handmaiden — and exalted one of low degree.

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